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Two Hong Kong productions have been delivered to the local theaters.
In
The Detective, Aaron Kwok
plays a Thai detective gets himself into a chain of murders after
agrees to locate a mysterious woman. Beauty and the 7 Beast is about
a fading mail
star is teaching five losers how to date girls. Then he finds out
the first target of his pupils is his long-lost daughter.
The Detective
is also becoming available in the mainland. However, the spotlight
of the week goes to Ang Lee's
Lust, Caution, which is
now shown in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Opening This
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September 21, 2007 |
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My Left Hand
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My Left Hand
is the new movie released this week. It tells a true story of a
solider losses his right hand during a recon mission and refuses to
quit. In Hong Kong, Jiang Wen's
The Sun Also Rises
has been released.
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Opening This
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The Sun Also Rises
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My Career
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Forgive and Forget |
Feng
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Exodus |
I Saw
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(Images:
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Beijing Red Century Film & Television Co., Ltd. and Hubei Red
Century Film Co., Ltd., The August First Film Studio, Tianshan Film
Studio, China Film Group Corp., FilmKo Pictures, Sil-Metropol
Organization Ltd., Tai-Hong Film & Vidio Production Studio, ?.) |
This week, six new movies have been made available in the mainland
China. Jiang Wen tells four inter-related stories in
The Sun Also Rises, life
stories of two teachers working in harsh conditions are featured in
My Career As a Teacher
and
Feng Zhiyuan, the first
uprising of the Chinese communists is recaptured in
The First of August, how
are several forest rangers and a gang of gold poachers are dealing
with an approaching storm is told in
Way of the Snowstorm, and
life of a few men and women is deeply stirred by lies and bedrails
is what
Forgive and Forget
all about. In Hong Kong, PANG Ho-Cheung's Exodus, about the women's
worldwide conspiracy of killing all men, has been released. Released
in Taiwan,
I Saw a Beast
tells a girl is feeling guilty about being homosexual and her
partner is ending her marriage in order to stay with her true
love...
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LUST, CAUTION and USELESS
CAPTURE Lions of Venice
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Hail, again, to Ang Lee, two years after capturing the Golden Lion
with
Brokeback Mountain,
returned to Venice and got the same lion again with his newly
completed
Lust, Caution. Also
congradulate to Jia Zhangke, who won the Golden Lion last year with
feature film
Still Life,
received the the top prize of the documentary category, for
Useless. |
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WARLORDS International
Teaser Posters
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The Warlords
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Opening This
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Invisible Wings
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Produced by
China Disabled Person's Federation, Beijing Silver Dream Digital
Image Technology Co., Ltd., Xi'an Five Continents Culture Promotion
Co., Ltd., Xi'an TV Media Co, Ltd., Beijing Envision Film & TV
Center, JCE China, Star000, Mei Ah Entertainment, Xi'an Mei Ah
Culture Communication, Beijing Time Image and Sound International
Entertainment Co., Ltd.) |
This week, three little films released in the mainland China.
Invisible Wings
tells how a young girl who lost both of her armies becomes a
swimmer, Air Diary about the story of a girl singer and a guy who
owns a bar. Crazy in Love is an urban comedy about what happens
after guys meet girls.
Naraka 19, a horror flick
is released yesterday in Hong Kong. It tells a girl uncovering the
truth behind the alleged 19th lay of hell.
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Fist Official Stills of Stephen
Chow's CJ7, aka. LONG RIVER 7
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Stephen Chow plays a very poor dad, who works very hard to support
his son attending a private school. 9 year old girl Xu Jiao plays
his son and actress Zhang Yuqi plays a school teacher, who is really
an alien. One day Stephen Chow discovered a strange "toy" in the
trash and gives it to his son as a birthday present. Soon they find
out the "toy" is a communication device lost y the alien. Once
targeted at this summer, the release in Asia has been pushed back to
the summer next year. Reportedly Stephen Chow, has run into some
problems related to CG effects and voice-over.
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More Official THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM
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Jet Li with Michael Angarano. |
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Principal shooting of the first Jackie Chan-Jet Li collaboration has
wrapped up in China, according to Sina.com. The Hollywood
production blends the talents of two top on-screen martial-art
stars, stories inspired by classic fantasy novel Journey to the
West, Chinese folklore about "The Eight Immortals" as well as Dr.
Louis Cha's wuxia novel White Hair Demoness, which has been on
screen numerous times. Michael Angarano plays an American kid who
is brought back to the ancient China after getting in touched with a
magic cudgel. He them teams up with Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), The Silent
Monk (Jet Li) and Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) to free the imprisoned
Monkey King (Jet Li) and return the cudgel to him. Of cause their
trip is not safe. The White Hair Deomness (Li Bingbing) and her
master Jade War Lord (Collin Chou) are not hesitating to stop them.
The script is written by John Fusco and the director is Rob Minkoff.
Yuen Wo-Ping is on board as the choreographer and the executive
producer and the man behind the camera is Peter Pau. Three South
Korean films, Macrograph, Inc., Digital Tetra Inc. (DTI) and Footage
are shaire the task of CG effects. The North American release is
aimed at April 18, 2008 and the dates for other countries are not
determined.
Click here for more stills.
Here is another one.
Related stories:
Jet Li as the Monkey King of the FORBIDDEN
KINGDOM, Have a Look
(JetLiCN.com)
July 17, 2007
THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Spy Photos and Video
(Sina.com)
June 27, 2007
FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Press
Conference
(...)
June 14, 2007
FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Spy Photos
(Sohu.com)
June 13, 2007
Another THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM
Photo - Liu Yifei
(Oriental
Morning Post)
May 22, 2007
THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Spy Photos
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LUST, CAUTION
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More about Lust, Caution. |
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More Review from Venice - Jiang Wen's
THE SUN ALSO RISES
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September 4, 2007 |
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The Madness |
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Ray Bennett from The Hollywood Reporter writes,
"Fluid motion and glorious colors provide a visual treat in
Jiang Wen's sumptuous romantic fantasy 'The Sun Also Rises,'"
"besides being wonderful to look at, "The Sun Also Rises" is great
fun, with sure-handed performances and an especially spry one by
Zhuo as the addled mother."
Related stories:
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Review from Venice - Jiang Wen's THE
SUN ALSO RISES
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September 3, 2007 |
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Quote from Variety's Derek Elley, "Highly colored ride
through landscape, love and history will prove murder for many and
manna for a few, depending on individual tolerance for cranked-up
visuals and acting, as well as knowledge of the niceties of
20th-century Maoist history."
Review by Derek Elley, Variety
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17Stills with Joan Chen and Newcomer
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In
17, a low budget film
(US$1 million) from young Chinese director Ji Cheng, Joan Chen and
Zou Shuang played a single mother and his son, named 17. Grew up
with his adoptive parents, young 17 was found by his birth mother
and after lived with his mother for 10 years, 17 year old 17 left
her again. Two films starring Joan Chen have been premiered at the
Venice International Film Festival -
Lust, Caution
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Hong Kong's 12th Golden Bauhinia
Film Awards
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September 1, 2007 |
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Best actress winner Charlene Choi (shared) and
Best actor winner Lau Ching-Wan.
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This year, more people would walked walk away from the award
ceremony with golden bauhinias than in any previous year, however
less half winner actually showed up. Three out of five nominees
share the title of Best Films -
After This Our Exile,
Battle of Wits
and
Exiled. Johnnie To won the
Best Director award for
Exiled. Lau Ching-Wan was
named the Best Actor for his performance in
My Name Is Fame. Charlene
Choi (Simply Actors)
and Gong Li (Curse of the Golden Flower)
share the Best Actress title. Young boy Ng King-to (Ian Iskandar
Gouw) won double awards - Best Support Actor and Best New Performer,
for his big screen debut in
After This Our Exiled.
Zhou Xun was named the Best Supporting Actress for
The Banquet.
Even though
Exodus, the latest from
director Pang Ho-Cheung, was nominated in 10 nominations, it only
collected one trophy for the Award for Creativity.
Exodus, an unreleased film
being nominated is something new for the annual awards. It is
reported that many voters, members of Hong Kong Film Critics
Association, were boycotting the film or even the awards.
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Best Film
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After This Our Exile, Battle of Wits, Exiled
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Best Director -
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Exodus |
PANG Ho-Cheung (Exodus) |
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Eye in the Sky |
Patrick TAM (After This Our Exile) |
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CHEUNG Chi-Leung (Battle of Wits) |
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YAU Nai-Hoi (Eye in the Sky) |
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Best Screenplay -
Patrick TAM, TIAN Kai-Leong (After
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Best Actor -
Lau Ching-Wan (My Name Is Fame) |
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This Our Exile) |
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Simon Yam (Exodus) |
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Vincci CHEUK, WAN Chi-Man, PANG Ho-Cheng (Exodus) |
Andy Lau (A Battle of Wits) |
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CHEUNG Chi-Leung (Battle of Wits) |
Leung Ka-Fai (Eye in the Sky) |
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YAU Nai-Hoi, AU Kin-Yee (Eye in the Sky) |
Aaron Kwok (After This Our Exile) |
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Best Actress -
Charlene CHOI (Simply Actors), Gong LI
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Best Supporting Actor -
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Nick CHEUNG (Exodus) |
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Gigi LEUNG (Wonder Women) |
WANG Zhiwen (Battle of Wits) |
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Rene LIU (Kidnap) |
LAM Suet (Eye in the Sky) |
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FAN Bingbing (Battle of Wits) |
LIU Ye (Curse of the Golden
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Best Supporting Actress -
ZHOU Xun (The Banquet) |
Best New Performer -
NG King-to (After This
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Fiona SIT (Wonder Women) |
Maggie SIU (Eye in the Sky) |
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Isabella LEONG (Diary) |
HUO Siyan (My Name Is Fame) |
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Monie TUNG (My Mother Is a Belly
Dancer) |
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Kelly
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Best Action Direction -
Donnie YEN (Dragon Tiger Gate) |
Best Art Direction -
Tim YIP (The Banquet) |
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TUNG Wai (Battle
of Wits) |
MAN Lim-Cheung
(Exodus) |
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YUEN Wo-Ping's Team (The
Banquet) |
YI Zhenzhou (Battle of
Wits) |
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CHING Siu-Tung (Curse
of the Golden Flower) |
HUO
Tingxiao (Curse
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Best Editing -
Patrick
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Best Cinematography -
LAU Wai-Keung, LAI Yiu-Fai
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TAM Kwok-ming (Exodus) |
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David Richardson (Eye in
the Sky) |
Charlie LAM (Exodus) |
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LIU Miaomiao (The
Banquet) |
CHEUNG Tung-Leung (Eye in
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CHEUNG Siu-keung (Exiled) |
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ZHANG
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Best Film Song -
"I Repay Love with All I Have
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Best Music -
Peter KAM (Protege) |
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music by TAN Dun and ZHONG Xingmin,
lyric by FAN
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Xueyi, performed by ZHANG Liangying (The
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Gabriele Roberto
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"Chrysanthemum Terrace (literal)", music by Jay CHOU,
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Robert Jay, Ellis Geiger
(After This Our Exile) |
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lyric by Fran FANG, performed by Jay
CHOU (Curse
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TAN Dun (The Banquet) |
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Golden Flower) |
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"Wish for a Long Life (literal)", music by DONG
Dongdong,
lyric by SU Shi,
performed by Jacky CHEUNG (Wish for a Long
Life (literal)) |
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"Secret", music by
Tetsuya YUKUMI and Hikari, lyric by
KWOK Kai-Wa,
performed by Denise HO,
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Best Sound -
Kinson TSANG (Confession of Pain) |
The Award for Creativity -
Exodus
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Other Nominees: |
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WANG Lei, MO Huijia (Dragon Tiger Gate) |
My Mother Is a Belly Dancer |
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Steve Burgess, HE Wei (Battle
of Wits) |
Simply Actors |
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TAO Jing
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Outstanding Achievement Award - Ti Lung
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Most Popular Film -
After This Our Exile, A Battle of Wits |
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Most Popular Actor -
Andy Lau (A Battle of Wits) |
Most Popular Actress -
Charlene CHOI (Simply Actors) |
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Chinese Language Films of the Year -
Election 2: Harmony Is a Virtue, After This
Our Exile, Exiled, Crazy Stone, Still Life, Isabella, Protege, The
Postmodern Life of My Aunt, Battle of Wits, Curse of the Golden
Flower. |
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Foreign Language Films of the Year -
Brokeback Mountain, The Departed, Munich, Babel, Capote, Das Leben
der Anderen, Little Miss Sunshine, Queen, Match Point, Paris, Je
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